08|03|2012

Unsound New York has announced its Unsound Labs
discussion programme for next month's festival, presented by
The Wire. Monolake (aka Ableton co-developer Robert Henke)
will be in conversation with Andy Battaglia, Pole talks on The Art
Of Mastering, and Stuart Argabright is in conversation with Dave
Tompkins.

Also lined up is Biosphere and Lustmord talking
about their journey to early nuclear testing sites in the New
Mexico desert for their Unsound commissioned project
Trinity, and Dave Tompkins giving his second talk on the
history of Miami Bass. A screening of Icon Eye will be
followed by a panel with Cameron Stallones (aka Sun Araw), director
Tony Lowe and project producer Matt Werth, and Jeremy Grimshaw will
give a talk titled The Music And Mysticism Of La Monte Young. Also
included is a panel on music and culture infrastructure in Poland,
Ukraine and beyond, with Unsound organiser Gosia Plysa, with Kotra,
Denis Kolokol and Macio Moretti. Full programme details and
schedule here.

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